Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1 (Updated)

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

Well, I took a chance and moved the i810_drv.so to i810_drv.so.old and created the symbolic link following the last line from the script...
Rebooted and everything seems fine.

Anna: thanks for the Howto!

I think if I'm not the only one with this problem, it might be interesting to add a line on the script, before creating the symbolic link, to move or delete the old i810_drv.so...

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

You should be fine, a symbolic link is just that - a link. When we remove the file it's pointing to, it becomes a broken link, but then we replace it with a new file so that it points to the correct file again. There's no need to delete it if it already exists.

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

Thanks for this guide. My glxgears FPS has gone from 420ish to 780ish.

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

Woot!

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

Yes, I'm somewhat familiar with links in Linux, but in my case I had a real file with the name of the link the script wants to create (the i810 file).

But anyway it's working fine for me after solving this little issue.

This driver seems way better than the original. Dithering makes a big difference and it seems the system is snappier (even 2D). Might be Placebo though .

Thanks!

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

nicolas: mine was a symlink but that could have been because I've had many a graphics driver already installed in this baby.

Odds are Xorg won't even be using the i810_drv.so file, but I'll change it anyway for completeness sake! Thanks!

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

I am getting some texture corruption in Quake 3, running with texture quality on the highest setting @ 800 x 600. It runs fine at medium quality so I will have to fiddle around some more.

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

the raptor: well that kind of sucks it could easily be another bug in the driver. even version 2.2.1 is pretty old, but it's the newest that will work on our linpus systems without masssive updates to the xorg server..

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

It is really minor, and it is the kind of thing I expect from integrated GPU's. I need to install some other 3D games to do more testing.

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

Another excellent procedure, worked like a charm, thanks Anna!

But do include rhu's remark : " sudo yum update compiz-manager " is mandatory if you haven't already done so. The version is now 0.6.0.4.

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

The drivers link seem to be dead (i had reinstall my linpus to make a clean partimage ) Can somebody reup the Tarball?

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

SuzuKube : link seems fine to me, but I'd be happy if someone provided a mirror as well in case my free webhost decides I'm abusing my bandwidth

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F% ... HEAD&uak=0

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

bugmenot: thanks! pretty weird error that one...

Edit: figured out what's wrong. My webhost changed nameservers on me without telling me. Very nice. :? Should be back up in 24 hours, I'll put up the mirror link in the meantime

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

Right, it work fine for now

I will upload it on my webserver http://suzukube.free.fr/linux

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

After following the instructions, compiz stopped working. Whenever I run compiz --replace I get the following error:

compiz (core) - Fatal: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Anyone knows how to solve it? (I did update the compiz-manager as recomended)

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

Try installing "fusion-icon", and then run it the same way you run "compiz-manager"

Also, make sure you have "emerald" installed, and that you reboot before trying to run compiz again

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

Thanks for the answer, but I had it already installed and was working properly before the driver update. Here is the output of compiz-manager, if it helps:

Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 00:02.0 0300: 8086:27ae (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1024x600) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting emerald
/usr/bin/compiz (core) - Fatal: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
/usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
/usr/bin/compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
/usr/bin/compiz-manager: line 406: /usr/bin/metacity: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/compiz-manager: line 406: exec: /usr/bin/metacity: cannot execute: No such file or directory

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

The driver doesn't have such known issues with compiz. It's probably configuration issues. Please post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file

 

Re: Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1, EXA and compiz+video

Ok, here it is.

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "DontZap" "no"
        Option "DontVTSwitch" "no"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Synaptics Mouse" "AlwaysCore"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "pt"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Synaptics Mouse"
        Driver     "synaptics"
        Option     "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option     "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option     "LeftEdge"  "1700"
        Option  "RightEdge"     "5300"
        Option  "TopEdge"       "1700"
        Option  "BottomEdge"    "4200"
        Option  "FingerLow"     "25"
        Option  "FingerHigh"    "30"
        Option  "MaxTapTime"    "180"
        Option  "MaxTapMove"    "220"
        Option  "VertScrollDelta" "100"
        Option  "MinSpeed"      "0.09"
        Option  "MaxSpeed"      "0.18"
        Option  "AccelFactor"   "0.0015"
        Option  "SHMConfig"     "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier  "Monitor0"
        Modeline  "1024x600" 48.96 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 -HSync +VSync
#       Option  "Above" "Monitor1"
EndSection


### This is the monitor section for an external VGA with DPMS (auto modeline selection)
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier  "Monitor1"
        Modeline "1024x768" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
        Option  "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Videocard0"
   Driver      "intel"
#   Option      "monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0"
#   Option       "monitor-VGA" "Monitor1"
#   Option       "Clone" "true"
#   Option   "MonitorLayout"   "LVDS,VGA"
#   BusID   "PCI:0:2:0"
   Option      "AccelMethod"   "EXA"
   Option      "FramebufferCompression" "off"
   Option       "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
   Option       "ExaNoComposite" "true"
   VideoRam   229396
   Option       "CacheLines" "1980"
#   Screen   0
EndSection


Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor     "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480" "1024x768"
# set virtual to the resolution of the external VGA if you want to use clone mode
# if you want to have Xinerama-like setup, use "2704x1050" (extW+intW x extH)
         Virtual 2704 1050
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Thanks.